The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-04-27
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items CT Interest Gathered from Nariou
Quarters.

The German Crown Prince is dying OF {
cancer Of the tongue.
President Eliot, of Harvard IS doing
Sicily and Southern Europe.
John A. Roach, the new Mayor Of Cni
cage, has been formally installed IN Office.
The island of Guernsey was shaken By
an earthquake.
Three more constableS have resigned III
Ireland rather than take part IN eyictionS. ,
Agent Joyce is suing the Marquis 2i
Clanricarde for $4,000 damages Tor l>ci
Alexander Mitchell, President Of the
Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad,
died in New York on Tuesday.
The fifteenth and last reported ballot il.
Tallahassee stood: Perry 4G, BloSham ~,
blank /.
The Massachusetts, House has passed the
nigh license bill to a-tlird reading. Vote,
1SS to 50.
James G. Blaine has arrived in Chicago.
He has completely recovered from his late
illness
The French corn law is bringing forth
loud complaints in the republic. Petitions
are pouring IL.
An explosion aboard the Delta, at VII
nlington Wednesday, killed one man and
injured several.
In battle in NIaruf, between the Ameer 5
troops and rebels, 50 OF the former and 800
of the latter Were killed.
Sam Jones will next carry the war into
California, having agreed to an engagement
at San Francisco in June.
Fire Wednesday burned o'st the Fulton
(Ill.l .J0urna} printing Office and three other
buildings. Total loss $25,O 900.
R. H. Knapp, the Atlanta broker who
took in his friends to the extent OF ABOUT
$s5, 900, was Canadian by birth.
Via Bremen, 7,740 emigrants have sailed
to America. from March to January !,
against 13, l7s5 for same period last year.
Marshal Bozaire was painfully wounded
by a Frenchman, who attempted his sssas-
sination.
The business portion Of North Middle
town, Ky, was almost totally burned Mon
day. Loss $4,000.
Nine of twenty-fou- Socialists were
convicted of conspiracy in Berlin and sen
fenced to short terms Of Imprisonment.
a strong effort is being made to settle the
silversmith strike in New York and Provi-
dence.
The Russian Commission has been IL
formed to increase the duty on cotton goods
and starch.
By falling elevator (brolzen rope in
Cornersyille, Ind, George Hampden was
killed and J. Mccormick fatally wounded.
Major John E. Blaine, paymaster in the
army, and brother of James G. Blaine, died
at Hot. Springs, Ark.
The court house Of Jones county, Miss,
tocether with all the county records, was
destroyed by an inceudiary fire on Monday
night.
Two more men lost their lives in the
construction of New York's new acque
duct. i dynamite cartridge was accident
ally exploded.
The President has appointed Col. Wes-
ley merritt to be Brigadier General. rtce
Brigadier General Orlando B. Wilcox. re-
tired.
Cbauncy NJ. Depew is going to Europe
in week or two to commit several extern
pore speeches for next winters banquets.
Prince Eugene, of Sweden, is in Paris
studying art with Bonnat, who regards INN
as one of the most promising OF his students.
JOAQUIN Miller has bought SIX hundred
and forty acres of land near Shasta, Cal.
and viii become q farmer, If he isn TOO
indolent
Friends of Postmaster General Villas say
that iron ore abounds on his Wisconsin
lands and that ne VIII be q millionaire IN q
little while.
Among the millionaire girls in Washing
ton society are the Misses Riggs, who sue
ceeded, with their brothers, to their father
banking business.
Millionaire Corcoran, who does more for
Washington than all the other millionalrcS
Jumped together, pays taxes on So, ,lO0,eVV
worth OF property.
Billy Emerson, the mi2S!rel, who writes
his first name with small ., receives $500
per week and travels IN i private car with
his wife wherever he goes.
Queen Victoria has received enough
Jubilee gifts to Ill a store. house as big as
Windsor Castle. Many Of them have to be
given away for want Of space to put them.
Senator Sherman's Mansfield friends say
that their favorite is not a millionaire, but
the man who has four aces in his sleeve
rarely alludes to that fact prematurely-
Plots to kill the Gar have been unearthed
at Kien and Odessa. They wanted to blow
up the imperial Car, opportunity present
ing,